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About blog Kurdish Matters

Roughly between 2012 and 2015, I blogged at the website Kurdish Matters. Most blogs were published (and are published on this website) in English, Kurdish and Turkish, with the help of wonderful translators Abdurrahman Önen (Kurdish) and Hilal Seven (Turkish).

Entries by blog Kurdish Matters

Enough is enough: safe zone needed in Southeast Turkey

31/08/2015 /3 Comments/in Other /by blog Kurdish Matters

Forty eight civilians have lost their lives in the current violence in Southeast Turkey, the Human Rights Association has estimated ( between 21 July and 28 August, so by now that number is already up again). One of the cases that especially hit me was the death of Eyüp Ergen, a nurse in the state […]

No, the PKK doesn’t want the HDP to be pushed under the 10% threshold

10/08/2015 in Other /by blog Kurdish Matters

Twenty three members of security forces have been killed by the PKK since 7 July, Anadolu Agency reported, and I’m sure this number will have increased by the time this column is published. Same goes for civilians who have lost their lives at the hands of the state, most recently three people in Silopi. And […]

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